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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST Volume 2 THE ARABIC LANGUAGE TODAY This page intentionally left blank THE ARABIC LANGUAGE TODAY A. F. L. BEESTON OR Routledge GDELTU Taylor & Francis Group E LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1970byHutchinson&Co(Publishers)Ltd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2017 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1970A.F.L.Beeston Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilised inanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownor hereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformation storageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintentto infringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-68297-9(Set) ISBN:978-1-315-45973-8(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-69897-0(Volume2)(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-69898-7(Volume2)(pbk) ISBN:978-1-315-51281-5(Volume2)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwouldwelcome correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. THE ARABIC LANGUAGE TODAY A. F. L. Beeston HUTCHINSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LONDON HUTCHINSON & CO (Publishers) LTD 178-202 Great Portland Street, London W.1 London Melbourne Sydney Auckland Johannesburg Cape Town and agencies throughout the world First published 1970 The paperback edition of this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser ©A. F. L. Beeston 1970 This book has been set in Times New Roman type face. It has been printed in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons Ltd, London and Beccles, on Smooth Wove paper and bound by Wm. Brendan ofTiptree, Essex ISBN 0 09 103100 1 (cased) 0 09 103101 X (paper) CONTENTS Preface 9 1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 11 2 PHONOLOGY 16 The phonemic repertory 16 Syllable structure 20 Neutralization of length 20 Accent 20 Word juncture 21 3 THE SCRIPT 24 Transliteration 28 4 THE WORD 30 5 ENTITY TERMS: I 34 Verbal abstract 35 Participles 35 Derivational nouns 36 Definition 36 Number and gender 38 Pronouns 39 Demonstratives 42 6 Contents 6 AMPLIFICATION OF SUBSTANTIVES 44 Adjectives 44 The annexion structure 45 Prepositional amplification 48 Adjectival clauses 49 7 SYNTACTIC MARKERS OF NOUNS 51 8 ENTITY TERMS: II 56 Substantive clauses 56 The intensified noun 57 Designations of colour, etc. 60 Numerals 61 9 THEME AND PREDICATE 63 Theme 63 Predicate 66 10 THE VERB 71 Verb stems 72 Verb sets 76 Modifying verbs 80 The non-specific verb 82 Syntactically determined variations in the verb 83 Commands, etc. 84 Conclusion 85 11 AMPLIFICATION OF THE PREDICATE 87 Circumstantial clauses 89 12 CLAUSE CONVERSION 92 Substantive clauses 92 Adjectival clauses 94 Circumstantial clauses 95 Contents 7 13 FUNCTIONALS 97 Coordination 97 Subordination 97 Negation 99 Questions 102 Emphasis 103 14 CONDITIONAL STRUCTURES 104 15 WORD ORDER 108 16 LEXICON AND STYLE 111 Appendix: Script styles Jl7 Bibliography 121 Index 123
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